Lordithon species are typically mushroom-dwelling rove beetles that devour maggots. This study presents the mitogenome of a arcuatus specimen was procured from Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province China. The is 18,290 bp long and comprises 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs. base composition as follows: A = 38.80%, T 37.93%, G 8.94%, C 14.32%. Maximum likelihood Bayesian phylogenetic tre...

The Chinese species of the silphaeformis group of the genus Tachinus Gravenhorst are revised with fifteen species being treated. Thirteen of them are described as new: T. armatus Feng & Li, sp. n. (Sichuan), T. cavazzutii Feng, Li & Schülke, sp. n. (Sichuan), T. coronatus Feng, Li & Schülke, sp. n. (Ningxia, Qinghai), T. hercules Feng, Li & Schülke, sp. n. (Sichuan), T. hujiayaoi Feng, Li & Sch...

Two new Chinese species of Derops are described: Derops hainanus sp. n. from Hainan and Derops yunnanus sp. n. from Yunnan. Females of Derops punctipennis Schülke and Derops schillhammeri Schülke are described for the first time and new provinces records of Derops smetanai Schülke and Derops dingshanus Watanabe are reported. The key to Chinese species of Derops published by Schülke 2003 is modi...